x86-64: Optimize vDSO time()
authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU>
Mon, 23 May 2011 13:31:31 +0000 (09:31 -0400)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 24 May 2011 12:51:29 +0000 (14:51 +0200)
commit973aa8181e10050809b56ecbaadd01495766a19e
tree0ca3fa4159ab439913a26bba412db5cbbe1737eb
parentf144a6b4d1688675d88990e29567b2335b48205e
x86-64: Optimize vDSO time()

This function just reads a 64-bit variable that's updated
atomically, so we don't need any locks.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C40e2700f8cda4d511e5910be1e633025d28b36c2.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c